Lawyers Representing Bush In 2000 Election Case Signed Off On Wolfowitz’s Compensation Package

[struggle4progress]

ormer head of the World Bank ethics committee, Ad Melkert, has stated that his panel was never consulted on, nor approved of, the hefty compensation package bank president Paul Wolfowitz arranged for his love interest, Shaha Riza.

But new documents released by a special committee of The World Bank Group show that a team at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher did sign off on the deal. That team included President Bush’s former Solicitor General Ted Olson and Eugene Scalia, son of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. ~snip~

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/16/wolfowitz-olson-scalia/

[WCGreen]

1. Can't any of these people get on a job on their own merit....

[Demeter]

2. What Merit?

[WCGreen]

3. That's the point,,,,